Woodrow's: South St. gets a sandwich shop

Kramer started in the biz washing dishes at Joseph Ambler Inn as a preteen, moving up to broiler cook by the time he graduated from high school. After five years cooking in the Navy, he enrolled at the Restaurant School before bouncing to such restaurants as Blue Bell Country Club, the Blue Horse in Blue Bell, Ravenna in Worcester, the Black Lab in Phoenixville, and Capital Grill in Center City and Cherry Hill. After the closing of his last restaurant, Smith & Wollensky at the Rittenhouse Hotel, he wanted to fly solo. Woodrow is a family middle name.

At Woodrow's, where he's helped by his old colleague Chris Langello, he's turning out eight sandwiches, notably a parmesan- and herb-crusted grilled cheese filled with Tallegio and pear (and an option of prosciutto cotto), a proper house-roast pork sandwich, and the so-called Not Just for Breakfast Sandwich, which starts with a pretzel croissant and piles on two eggs, bacon or prosciutto, mustard, cream cheese, and chives. Plus hand-cut fries.

Hours (in flux at the beginning ) are noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

These are high times for sandwiches in Bella Vista, as Samwich - the offshoot of Suppa in Northern Liberties - also opens Saturday, Jan. 16 at Sixth and Catharine Streets.